Robert Brenstein wrote:
> There is a way to tell Finder not to copy them to external volumes
> but I seem to have misplaced the details of achieving that.
So far I've only been able to turn up a command to stop the ._DStore
files, but not the others.
Paul Hibbert wrote:
> It seems turning off the '._*' file creation could cause problems
> with the Apple Finder and some MS Office apps.
If an app depends on Mac-specific metadata or the resource fork that
would be the case. But the res fork has been flagged for deprecation
for more than a decade, so any dev relying on it can expect issues. For
anything else, the Mac works fine with files put onto such drives from
other OSes, so any risk would seem very minimal.
Even so, I'm okay with the default being what it is. It just seems
reasonable that there be an option for the Finder to play nice with the
other 90% of the world when copying to foreign-format drives.
> After a quick search I found an old entry on Mac OS X Hints (MacWorld
> forum) that states "using the 'mv' and 'cp' commands
Thanks. I replaced Time Machine with some rsync scripts not long ago,
which also copies only what I tell it to without creating extra files.
But this isn't for me, but for everyone I work with. I love rsync, but
it's not the sort of thing I'd recommend to all my friends. :)
If there was a setting for this, even if it was only accessible through
the command line, I'd happily make a free tool to help people set it.
But I just can't find such an option....
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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